On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 21:41 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > 3. Some advised blowing away .../persistent-net.rules. > I chose to modify it so that the new device is now eth0 and the > old > device is gone.
Removing it does the same thing. The device file is re-created with the currently probed hardware and indexes start from 0. It's just that most people prefer to just remove it because it's less typing and less prone to errors. > >
